Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics [online]Sandra Leonie Field (Yale-NUS College), Sharon Lloyd (University of Southern California), Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University), Justin Steinberg (Brooklyn College, CUNY Graduate Center)
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Sandra Leonie Field's Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics
Chair: Moira Gatens
Field's book draws on the political writings of Hobbes and Spinoza to establish a conceptual framework for understanding the genesis, risks, and promise of popular power. Radical democrats--whether drawing on Hobbes’ “sleeping sovereign” or on Spinoza's “multitude”--understand popular power as moments transcending ordinary institutional politics (e.g. popular plebsites or mass movements). However, a focus on the concept of power as potentia generates a new approach to popular power, according to which its true center lies in the slow, meticulous work of organizational design and maintenance. The book makes an original contribution at the intersection of early modern philosophy and democratic theory.
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https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780197528242.001.0001/oso-9780197528242-chapter-1
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February 4, 2021, 12:30pm CST
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